Surah Sharh ayat 3 Tafsir Quran 94:3

﴿الَّذِي أَنقَضَ ظَهْرَكَ﴾
[ الشرح: 3]

94:3 Which had weighed upon your back

that which weighed down your back? — this is similar to where God says that God may forgive you what is past of your sin Q. 482.

A burden of an immense magnitude, We realize was more than your back could bear

Which was revealed in Makkah بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـنِ الرَّحِيمِ In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. The Meaning of opening the Breast Allah says, أَلَمْ نَشْرَحْ لَكَ صَدْرَكَ ( Have We not opened your breast for you ) meaning, `have We not opened your chest for you.' This means, `We illuminated it, and We made it spacious, vast and wide.' This is as Allah says, فَمَن يُرِدِ اللَّهُ أَن يَهْدِيَهُ يَشْرَحْ صَدْرَهُ لِلإِسْلَـمِ ( And whomsoever Allah wills to guide, He opens his breast to Islam. ) ( 6:125 ) And just as Allah expanded his chest, He also made His Law vast, wide, accommodating and easy, containing no difficulty, hardship or burden. A Discussion of Allah's Favor upon His Messenger Concerning Allah's statement, وَوَضَعْنَا عَنكَ وِزْرَكَ ( And removed from you your burden. ) This means لِّيَغْفِرَ لَكَ اللَّهُ مَا تَقَدَّمَ مِن ذَنبِكَ وَمَا تَأَخَّرَ ( That Allah may forgive you your sins of the past and the future. ) ( 48:2 ) الَّذِى أَنقَضَ ظَهْرَكَ ( Which weighed down your back ) Al-Inqad means the sound.
And more than one of the Salaf has said concerning Allah's saying, الَّذِى أَنقَضَ ظَهْرَكَ ( Which weighed down your back ) meaning, `its burden weighed heavy upon you.' The Meaning of raising the Fame of the Prophet ( Peace be upon him ) وَرَفَعۡنَا لَكَ ذِكۡرَكَ ( And have We not raised high your fame? ) Mujahid said, "I ( Allah ) am not remembered except that you are remembered with Me: I bear witness that there is no God worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad ﷺ is the Messenger of Allah." Qatadah said , "Allah raised his fame in this life and in the Hereafter.
There is no one who gives a sermon, declares the Testimony of Faith ( Shahadah ), or prays a prayer ( Salah ) except that he proclaims it: I bear witness that there is no God worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad ﷺ is the Messenger of Allah. Ease after Difficulty إِنَّ مَعَ ٱلۡعُسۡرِ يُسۡرً۬ا • فَإِنَّ مَعَ ٱلۡعُسۡرِ يُسۡرًا ( Verily along with every hardship is relief.
Veriliy along with every hardship is relief ) Allah informs that with difficulty there is ease, and then He reaffirms this information ( by repeating it ) The Command to remember Allah during Spare Time فَإِذَا فَرَغۡتَ فَٱنصَبۡ • وَإِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ فَٱرۡغَب ( So when you have finished, devote yourself to Allah's worship.
And to your Lord turn intentions and hopes.
) Meaning, 'when you have completed your worldly affairs and its tasks, and you have broken away from its routine, then get up to perform the worship, and stand for it with zeal, complete devotion and purify your intention and desire for your lord.' Similar to this is the Prophet's statement in a hadith that is agreed-upon to be authentic, لَا صَلَاةَ بِحَضْرَةِ الطَّعَامِ, وَلَا هُوَ يُدَافِعُهُ الأَخْبَثَانِ There is no prayer when the food is served, nor when the two foul things ( excrement and urine ) are pressing a person. The Prophet ( صلى الله عليه و سلم ) also said, إِذَا أُقِيمَتِ الصَّلَاةُ وَحَضَرَ الْعَشَاءُ فَبْدَأُوا بِااْلْعَشَاءِ When the prayer has started and the dinner has been served, then begin with dinner. Mujahid said concerning this Ayah, "When you are free from the worldly affairs, and you have stood to pray, then stand up for your Lord."

(94:3) that had well-nigh broken your back? *2

Which had weighed upon your back meaning

*2) Some of the commentators have interpreted this to mean that before Prophethood, in the days of ignorance, the Holy Prophet ( upon whom be peace ) had happened to commit certain errors because of which he was feeling disturbed, and Allah by sending down this verse consoled and satisfied him, saying that He had forgiven him those errors.
But jn our opinion it is a grave mistake to interpret this verse thus.
In the first place, the word vizr dces not necessarily mean a sin, but it is also used for a heavy burden.
Therefore, there is no reason why it should in every case be taken in the bad sense.
Secondly, the Holy Prophet's life before Prophethood also was so clean and pure that it had been presented in the Qur'an as a challenge before the opponents..
So much so that the Holy Prophet ( upon whom be peace ) was made to point out to the disbelievers: " 1 have already lived a lifetime among you before the revelation of this Qur'an. " ( Yunus 16 ).
and he was also not the type of a person who would commit a sift secretly.
God forbid, had he been such a man, Allah would not have been unaware of it, and would not have made him proclaim the thing before the people openly, which He made him proclaim in the above-mentioned verse of Sarah Yunus, if his person carried the blot of a sin committed secretly.
Thus, in fact, in this verse vizr means a heavy burden and it implies the burden of distress, anguish and anxiety that was, telling on his sensitive nature when he saw- his nation deeply sunk in ignorance and barbarism.
Idols were being worshipped, the community was engrossed in idolatry and polytheistic customs and practices, filth of immorality and indecency prevailed all around, wickedness and corrupt practices were rampant in society, the powerful were suppressing the powerless; girls were being-buried alive, tribes were subjecting, one another to surprise attacks, and sometimes the wars of vengeance continued for a hundred years at a stretch.
No one's Iife, property and honour was safe unless he had a strong band at his back.
This grieved the Holy Prophet ( upon whom be peace ) but he could find no way to cure the malady.
This same anxiety was weighing down his back.
Allah by showing him the way to Guidance removed its burden from him.
Then as soon as he was appointed to the office of Prophethood, .
he came to know that belief in the doctrine of Tauhid, the Hereafter and Prophethood was the master-key by which each corruption in human life could be eradicated and the way to reform opened in every aspect of life.
This guidance front Allah relieved him of his burden and he felt re-assured that by means of it he would not only be able to cure the maladies of Arabia but also of all mankind outside Arabia as well.

 

Which was revealed in Makkah بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـنِ الرَّحِيمِ In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. The Meaning of opening the Breast Allah says, أَلَمْ نَشْرَحْ لَكَ صَدْرَكَ ( Have We not opened your breast for you ) meaning, `have We not opened your chest for you.' This means, `We illuminated it, and We made it spacious, vast and wide.' This is as Allah says, فَمَن يُرِدِ اللَّهُ أَن يَهْدِيَهُ يَشْرَحْ صَدْرَهُ لِلإِسْلَـمِ ( And whomsoever Allah wills to guide, He opens his breast to Islam. ) ( 6:125 ) And just as Allah expanded his chest, He also made His Law vast, wide, accommodating and easy, containing no difficulty, hardship or burden. A Discussion of Allah's Favor upon His Messenger Concerning Allah's statement, وَوَضَعْنَا عَنكَ وِزْرَكَ ( And removed from you your burden. ) This means لِّيَغْفِرَ لَكَ اللَّهُ مَا تَقَدَّمَ مِن ذَنبِكَ وَمَا تَأَخَّرَ ( That Allah may forgive you your sins of the past and the future. ) ( 48:2 ) الَّذِى أَنقَضَ ظَهْرَكَ ( Which weighed down your back ) Al-Inqad means the sound.
And more than one of the Salaf has said concerning Allah's saying, الَّذِى أَنقَضَ ظَهْرَكَ ( Which weighed down your back ) meaning, `its burden weighed heavy upon you.' The Meaning of raising the Fame of the Prophet ( Peace be upon him ) وَرَفَعۡنَا لَكَ ذِكۡرَكَ ( And have We not raised high your fame? ) Mujahid said, "I ( Allah ) am not remembered except that you are remembered with Me: I bear witness that there is no God worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad ﷺ is the Messenger of Allah." Qatadah said , "Allah raised his fame in this life and in the Hereafter.
There is no one who gives a sermon, declares the Testimony of Faith ( Shahadah ), or prays a prayer ( Salah ) except that he proclaims it: I bear witness that there is no God worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad ﷺ is the Messenger of Allah. Ease after Difficulty إِنَّ مَعَ ٱلۡعُسۡرِ يُسۡرً۬ا • فَإِنَّ مَعَ ٱلۡعُسۡرِ يُسۡرًا ( Verily along with every hardship is relief.
Veriliy along with every hardship is relief ) Allah informs that with difficulty there is ease, and then He reaffirms this information ( by repeating it ) The Command to remember Allah during Spare Time فَإِذَا فَرَغۡتَ فَٱنصَبۡ • وَإِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ فَٱرۡغَب ( So when you have finished, devote yourself to Allah's worship.
And to your Lord turn intentions and hopes.
) Meaning, 'when you have completed your worldly affairs and its tasks, and you have broken away from its routine, then get up to perform the worship, and stand for it with zeal, complete devotion and purify your intention and desire for your lord.' Similar to this is the Prophet's statement in a hadith that is agreed-upon to be authentic, لَا صَلَاةَ بِحَضْرَةِ الطَّعَامِ, وَلَا هُوَ يُدَافِعُهُ الأَخْبَثَانِ There is no prayer when the food is served, nor when the two foul things ( excrement and urine ) are pressing a person. The Prophet ( صلى الله عليه و سلم ) also said, إِذَا أُقِيمَتِ الصَّلَاةُ وَحَضَرَ الْعَشَاءُ فَبْدَأُوا بِااْلْعَشَاءِ When the prayer has started and the dinner has been served, then begin with dinner. Mujahid said concerning this Ayah, "When you are free from the worldly affairs, and you have stood to pray, then stand up for your Lord."

( Which weighed down thy back? ) It is also said: prophethood weighed down your back; And the Prophet ( pbuh ) said: " Yes, indeed! "

Which weighed down your back?

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